There isn’t much better than the aroma or taste of freshly baked bread. Now imagine that you could be sharing that experience with family and friends in your very own kitchen... Imagine no more! This hands-on three hour bread baking class will refine your baking skills and discuss the ten steps of the bread-making process. You’ll get to participate in each step from selecting the ingredients and kneading the dough to shaping, scoring and baking. Enjoy the fruits of your labor by taste-testing your own creations! By the end of class, you’ll know how to bake the perfect baguette, buttery roll, fruit and nut loaf and pizza pie right at home!

What’s the secret behind New York’s pizza? Is it in the water? Maybe it’s the perfect mesh of doughy and crispy crust? It’s a combination of it all, and you don’t need a brick oven constructed in your home to produce pizza this good. During this Artisan Pizza Making class, you’ll mix your own pizza dough by hand, and craft your own personal artisan pizzas. Once the pizza is fit for your mouth's desire, place it in the oven and watch it bake. As the cheese melts, you'll sit down and enjoy a refreshing glass of juice before the tasting begins. The professional bakers at Le Pain Quotidien will also discuss how you can recreate those crispy crusts with a conventional oven at home.
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Are you looking to make some dough? Do you knead dough? Or are you looking to show your friends how they, too, can make dough in a fun and easy way? Sweet and Decorative Breads is a class dedicated to the world of enriched breads, specifically brioche and challah. During this hands-on course, you will learn the science and simple techniques, from ingredient selection to kneading, shaping and baking, in creating delicious loaves of brioche and challah. You’ll also witness the versatility of challah and brioche dough as you shape them into knots and braids, and fill them with chocolate and dried fruit.
Now, that’s a lot of dough!

Pretzels and beer? Salty food and hoppy beer is like the peanut butter and jelly for grown-ups. Join Le Pain Quotidien in the Belgian experience of a lifetime. Transporting figuratively to Antwerp, you will get hands-on, while you bake chewy and twisty pretzels, creating that perfect, thin, amber crust. Mixing the dough in this unique workshop, you’ll knead your way to thirst. And the only possible quench is a cold, Belgian beer. Sounds like something you just might knead to try.

If you’ve ever been to Belgium, you’d know it’s chocolate shop, lace shop, and french fries, repeatedly. Le Pain Quotidien fuses one of these ingredients (not the french fries) with decadent, buttery bread. The answer: Belgian chocolate. Chocolate Breads use the luscious flavor to produce an array of products: baguettes, brioches, and cookies. This three-hour hands-on workshop teaches simple techniques to create delicious loaves, transforming each student into a baking master. From Bruges to Antwerp, Brussels to Ghent, you’ll make not only a Belgian proud of your chocolate bread, but also feed your friend’s stomachs at the same time.
On the menu: Chocolate Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies, Chocolate Baguette, Chocolate Pretzels, and Chocolate Brioche Fleur

Conjure up the image of a freshly baked biscuit or scone. If the mere thought of it and its delicious aroma gets your mouth watering then this is the ideal class for you! You will learn hands-on how to make delicious treats any time your heart desires. You’ll master the techniques and secrets behind creating favorites such as cream biscuits, fruit scones, and vanilla shortbread. And at the end of the class, you’ll sit down to enjoy your handiwork with a cup of fresh coffee or tea and an array of jams and spreads. Be prepared to take the leftovers home... sharing optional!

Cobblers? Don’t they repair shoes? Isn’t Daniel Day Lewis a cobbler? This class is fortunately more about the succulent dessert. With an abundance of summery, ripe fruits, learn how to make them shine with these three simple desserts: cobblers, dumplings, and shortcakes. During this hands-on workshop, discover how to mix your own pastry dough, and assemble tasty cobblers and apple dumplings. From there, as these treats bake, you will gather around the communal table to enjoy freshly baked berry shortcakes with a cup of coffee or tea. Prepare for any occasion with your cobbler mastery.

Flatbread. Delicious, satisfying flatbread. Whether it’s warm pita, puffy naan, crunchy breadsticks, or a decorative fougasse, flatbreads are a great addition to any meal. During this hands-on class at Le Pain Quotidien, you’ll discover the basics of mixing and forming your own flatbreads. Learning different shaping techniques, how to mix your dough, and how to incorporate starter dough into your bread baking process, you’ll be sure to make some of the best flatbreads in the city. Throw on some infamous Le Pain spreads, and you just may be in heaven... bread heaven!

It’s pie season. Actually, every season is pie season -- it just depends on the type of pie. Join Le Pain Quotidien for a hands-on experience in the basics behind seasonal pies and rustic tarts, called galettes. Whether you are looking to refine your baking skills or simply want your clothing engulfed in the scrumptious scent of a bakery, Seasonal Pies and Galettes is the perfect opportunity to do so. You’ll embrace the warmth of a bakery and learn about the two basic doughs used, as well as unique seasonal pie recipes. You will then test what you’ve learned in baking your own pie or galette, and return home with the fruits of your labor.

Strolling through those aromatic bakeries, it's hard to resist those delicious, cheese-filled quiches, you simply can’t leave without one. With Le Pain Quotidien, you can enjoy a lively evening creating and tasting delicious, savory tarts. Here, you’ll acquaint yourself in the bakery, working two different savory doughs to create your own quiche and galette. So much to learn, eat and savor! After mastering the dough, watch it bake and grow. Once it's ready, take a seat at the communal table, with a glass of wine, and enjoy your delectable product. There’s no such thing as too much tastiness!

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